heat-labile

A form of heat labile — Not heat stable; that breaks down at high temperatures.

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Meanings

adjectiveheat-labile (comparative more heat-labile, superlative most heat-labile)

comparative more heat-labile · superlative most heat-labile

  1. alternativeAlternative form of heat labile.

    A heat-labile UNG is also available that has proven to be more effective in some experiments when RNA is targeted.

    2012, Yi-Wei Tang, Charles W. Stratton, Advanced Techniques in Diagnostic Microbiology, page 474
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    It may resemble the factor 5 in Salmonella, a heat-labile determinant on the endotoxin molecule which, because of its superficial location, blocks the agglutination reaction of the deeper heat-stable O antigens in the same way as do the Vi and K antigens.

    1966, Karina Dzintars Burda, A Study of Heat-labile Superficial Somatic Antigen of Vibrio Fetus, page 41

    A more complex mechanism is used by Vibrio cholerae toxin and by the homolog heat-labile enterotoxin secreted by ETEC strains.

    2012, Phillip Smith, Thomas MacDonald, Principles of Mucosal Immunology, page 407
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